mandate) your statement of solidarity with the CC + your Prinzipienerklarung* + (be sure to include) a letter to the conference, instructing our CC to read it aloud (or respectively to vote on it, if possible).

The crux of the struggle will be: whether to declare in the Prinzipienerklarung a merciless (extending even to a split) struggle against opportunism = social-chauvinism. Achieve maximum clarity and firmness of formulation precisely on this point.

Send a postcard at once stating whether you have received this letter, and whether you hope (are convinced?) that they will carry out this and that.

(Greetings to Alexander!) Salut!

Your Lenin

1915

to Christiania (Oslo)

Written after August 19

Sent from Sörenberg (Switzerland)

First published in 1924

in Lenin Miscellany II

Printed from the manuscript